| Author: | Nicholas
Edward Brown, 1915 |
| Family: |
EUPHORBIACEAE |
| Origin: |
Southern South
Africa |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Minimum - Medium |
| Sun: |
Medium - Maximum |
| Thickness: |
8
Centimetres |
| Height: |
15
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Yellow |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
Euphorbia brevirama var. astrophora, Marx & van
Veldh. =
Euphorbia astrophora, Marx 1996.
Euphorbia brevirama var. supraterra, Marx &
van Veldh. |
This member of the Euphorbiaceae
family was given this name by Nicholas Edward Brown in 1915. It is
found near Cape Good Hope, South Africa, growing in
a well drained soil with little to some water and some to lots of
sun. The swollen stem can grow to eight centimetres in diameter and
fifteen centimetres in height. The flowers are yellow.
The genera name; Euphorbia
dates back to the first century BC, where King Juba II of
Mauritania used it in a reference to his doctor, Euphorbos, and that
name was kept as a generic name by Carl von Linnaeus. The
species name from Latin: brevi; 'short' and -rama;
'branches'. |
